The rise and fall of Nelson’s Pillar

[sc_embed_player fileurl=”http://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/history2013/20160418-HistoryIrelandShow-062.mp3″] Click the play button to listen To download audio, right click this link and select “Save link as..” @ National Library of Ireland, Kildare Street Mon 14 March 2016 @ 7pm Who was Horatio Nelson and why did his naval victory over the French at Trafalgar in 1805 provoke a craze for building … Read more

Glasnevin in 1916; 1916 in Glasnevin

[sc_embed_player fileurl=”http://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/history2013/20160312-HistoryIrelandShow-061.mp3″] Click the play button to listen To download audio, right click this link and select “Save link as..” @ Glasnevin Museum, 2pm Sunday 10 April 2016 Over the course of the Easter 1916 Rising in Dublin nearly 500 people were killed, half of them civilians. Most of them were buried in Glasnevin, the … Read more

Women of the Irish Revolution

[sc_embed_player fileurl=”http://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/history2013/20160308-HistoryIrelandShow-060.mp3″] Click the play button to listen To download audio, right click this link and select “Save link as..” A History Ireland Hedge School in association with Fingal Libraries, at Ardgillan Castle, Skerries, Co. Dublin On Saturday 5 March Hedge School master Tommy Graham discussed Women of the Irish Revolution with Mary McAulliffe, Fearghal … Read more

Whose Diaspora is it anyway?

[sc_embed_player fileurl=”http://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/history2013/20160307-HistoryIrelandShow-059.mp3″] Click the play button to listen To download audio, right click this link and select “Save link as..” 16 January 2016 at the Bundoran Cineplex, Donegal Tommy Graham (editor of History Ireland) chaired a discussion on the Irish diaspora with: Liam Kennedy Director, Clinton Institute for American Studies, University College Dublin Micheál Ó hÉanaigh … Read more

The 1916 Proclamation: then & now

[sc_embed_player fileurl=”http://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/history2013/20160301-HistoryIrelandShow-058.mp3″] Click the play button to listen To download audio, right click this link and select “Save link as..” @ Parish Centre, Roundwood, Co. Wicklow 4pm Saturday 27 February Hedge School master Tommy Graham discussed The 1916 Proclamation: then & now, with Liam Kennedy, Padraig Yeates, Robert Ballagh and  Linda Connolly. Part of a 1916 seminar run … Read more